Telephone support



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. W. FISH. TELEPHONE SUPPORT.

Patented Mar. 25, 1884'.

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No. 295.531., Patented Mar. 25, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,531, dated March 25, 1884.

Application fi!cd December 5, $83. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FIsH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Pet:- atonica, in the county of WVinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful i Support for the Receivers of Telephones, of

which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to support the receiving-instrument of a telephone, to relieve the attendant from holding it in his hand while receiving a message, to give him the free use of his hands for other purposes;

. and it consists in a bracketsupport to the receiver, and made readily adjustable to a position to meet the ear of an attendant.

This improvement, in connection with the necessary appliances to render it a practical device for the purpose, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, constitutes the subject-matter of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of an apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same apparatus, in which the receiver is cut on the dotted line a: in Fig. 1.

I11 the figures, A represents the case containing the transmitterB of a telephone, also the battery, the call mechanism, and the circuit closing and breaking apparatus, all of which may be any of the known forms of these or other necessary or convenient parts.

For the purpose of supporting the receiver 0 of a telephone in a proper position relatively with the transmitter B, I have designed the bracket represented in the drawings, consisting, in the main, of a foot-bar, D, fitted to engage a suitable vertical support, and a horizontal outward-projecting arm, E, from the outer end of which depends a vertical arm, F. This bracket is also provided with a vertical arm, l-I, depending from the horizontal arm E,

having its lower end portion connected with the horizontal arm E and with the footbar D by means of the brace-bars I and K.

I At L is represented an arm connected atc to the lower end portion of the vertical center; arm, H, from which it extends in a horizontal position on the right-hand side of the bracket. This bar L is supported in its horizontal position by means of a brace, N, which connects its outer portion to the vertical center arm, H. The outer or front edge of the vertical arm F is produced in ratchet-tooth form, for a pur pose to be hereinafter described.

At P is represented a socket of proper conformation to receive the vertical arm F of the bracket in a manner to slide there-on freely. This socket is provided with outward-projecting ears b, between which is pivoted a thumblever spring-actuated pawl, 0, having its end fitted to engage the ratchet-teeth of the arm F of the bracket in such a manner as to hold the socket in any adjusted position on the toothed arm. The ears I) are extended beyond the pivotal connection of the thumblever pawl, and rise in the manner shown, and are provided with curved spring-arms d, of a suitable form to receive the center shank orhandle portion, e, of the receiver, to support it in a horizontal position. 7 This socket P, its spring-actuated thumb-lever pawl c, and its curved spring-arms d, constitute the adjustable bracket-support of the receiver, and by means of its connection with the vertical ratchet-arm F of the fixed bracket is made vertically adjustable.

At R is represented an elastic link, connected to the free end of the lateral arm L, and its free end e is fitted to engage the free end it of the switch-lever 7c, employed to make the necessary changes in the electrical circuit. This link, when connected to the switch-lever k, as shown in the solid lines in Fig. 1, serves to make the connection with the call-bell, and when disconnected therefrom, as represented in the dotted lines, the connection will be made with the transmitter.

In the use of my improved support, the main supporting-bracket is fixed in a vertical position to support the receiver in its adjustable bracket-support in position to engage the ear of the attendant in a convenient position relatively with the transmitter, and by means of the bracket-support of the receiver made vertically adjustable on the vertical arm of 5 the fixed bracket, the receiver can be readily adjusted to the proper height to meet the ear of parties-of various heights desiring to use the instrument. 7

I claim as iny invention-- Q l. The combination, with a telephone-trans relatively to said transmitter, substantially in mitter, of a vertical support produced in the manner as and for the purposeherein shown toothed-ratchetform, and a receiver-supportand described.

ing bracket made vertically adjustable on the 3. The combination, with the fixed support I 5 5 tooth-ratchet support, said receiver-support ing-bracket and with the switch-lever, of an having a spring-actuated pawl to engage the elastic-link connection, substantially as and teeth of the vertical support, substantially as for the purpose set forth.

and for the purpose set forth. GEORGE W'. FISH.

2. The combination, with a telephone-trans Witnesses: IO Initter, of a receiver and a.vertical1y-adjusta- J. F. WVRIGHT,

ble bracket-support for said receiver, arranged SMITH A. SALISBURY. 

